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If ever i were to see thank you i think it would be pretty close to what i imagined it to be. i think i ve got a pretty good image a pretty vivid imagination. and i think that, you know, we really feel before we see. we really hear before we see. because the information, you know, goes into our minds and we have to we have to really i mean, if we re honest with ourselves, if we re being ourselves, we have to say, okay, this is how i view this. but when you have preconceptions, if your vision gives you preconceptions, then you ve got a problem with yourself. larry: do you read braille? what s that? larry: you don t read braille? i m kidding you. of course i read braille, yes. larry: want to play a little under me? we re going to break. play a little under me. anything you wrote. ....
the first hit we had was a song called fingertips. and originally larry: third album, right? that was in the, yeah, third album, yes. it was a jazz sort of the first time it was recorded the jazz little stevie. it was a project that motown did with me playing the harmonica and piano and drums and stuff. kind of jazz project. and than we did a tribute to uncle ray, which was a tribute to ray charles that we did. and then we were on the motown revue, and in chicago the fingertips was done again. we d come up with a live version of it. clarence paul, who was my musical director at the time, came up with an idea for, you know, the whole everybody say yeah, and all that stuff. and that was put on the album that was called little stevie wonder live at the apollo. ....
You play piano like when you were 5? yeah. i played piano. i mean, you know, obviously, sound was very important to me. so when i was able to you know, to touch that thing that s called a piano, you know, i was curious about it, and i think the first that s probably the first thing i played. larry: three blind mice. exactly. larry: appropriately enough. was it it had to be tough. i ve interviewed george shearing. i m sure you knew george shearing. he was great. great man. larry: he said that when you ve never seen he didn t regard it as a handicap because that s the only thing he knew. yeah. i mean, it s definitely more difficult for someone who has seen and then lost their sight. because obviously you re used to seeing and you re used to being able to look at something and point right at it or go right to it. even though that s, you know, true, it s not impossible to survive and to live. so larry: obviously, you ve proven it. we re going to trace an extraor ....
Really feel before we see. we really hear before we see. because the information, you know, goes into our minds and we have to we have to really i mean, if we re honest with ourselves, if we re being ourselves, we have to say, okay, this is how i view this. but when you have preconceptions, if your vision gives you preconceptions, then you ve got a problem with yourself. larry: do you read braille? what s that? larry: you don t read braille? i m kidding you. of course i read braille, yes. larry: want to play a little under me? we re going to break. play a little under me. anything you wrote. my guest is stevie wonder. more music when stevie is our guest. we re honoring him tonight for the full hour. don t go away. ....
for me and you, my part-time lover chasing love underneath the sun, we are strangers by day, lovers by night knowing it s so wrong but feeling so right, oh, you know, we could go on and on. larry: do you still do a lot of concerts? yes, we do. we ve just recently did the tour throughout europe. we ve had different concepts. the next two i m going to do is going to be called through the eyes of wonder. and the concept of that tour is going to be really taking the ideas that i see, you know, the visuals, how i ve how i ve ....